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The seventh in a series of regional waste reviews, ‘Delivering Waste Efficiencies in the East Midlands,’ was recently published. John Enright, waste specialist, annually conducts research on a different region in England, focusing on areas where more than £8 million pounds per annum in savings have been achieved. He co-authored this report with Dr Jane […]

The European Commission, in partnership with the UN Environment Finance Initiative, recently hosted a webinar exploring ‘Renovation of Public Buildings in Europe’. Full details of contributing presenters and organisations are shown below. Speakers presented innovative ways in which energy efficiency is, and can be, promoted and achieved across organisations. Miguel Casas drew conclusions from a […]

The British Renewable Energy Awards, planned annually by the Renewable Energy Association (REA), have recently announced this year’s nominees. The awards are one of the UK’s most prestigious for renewable energy and clean technologies and this year’s call for nominations received a particularly high volume of entries. Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) was short-listed for an […]

The annual Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) spring seminar took place last week. The organisation “aims to further the interests of people in need of social care by promoting high standards of social care services and influencing the development of social care legislation and policy”. A key theme of the conference was […]

The housing crisis remains at the top of councils’ and the government’s agenda. As part of our remit to share knowledge and learnings we regularly present at housing and infrastructure conferences to help share best practice. Inside Government “Income Generation” conference On 28th March Simon Bandy spoke at the Inside Government “Income Generation” conference, using […]

Local Partnerships’ Chief Executive, Sean Hanson, chaired a panel on housing delivery at the City & Financial conferences’ 15th Annual UK Sustainable Infrastructure Policy and Investment Summit on 28 March. The conference was organised in collaboration with the National Infrastructure Commission and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. The housing delivery panel Sean chaired consisted of: […]

Energy efficiency and clean energy generation will be high on the agenda of all public sector organisations as budgets tighten even further and the cost of doing nothing is rising. The ReFit programme helps make England and Wales’ non-domestic public buildings and assets more energy efficient. Last week in Brussels, the European Commission’s Directorate-Generals for […]

Re-Energising Public Assets In-procurement magazine is a well-known public sector procurement publication. They feature articles from a diverse range of experts and professionals, covering everything “procurement” from around the world. The latest edition of the magazine features an article by Teresa Oliviere, Head of Legal at Local Partnerships, who looks into how controlling energy within […]

The government has today announced the first successful bids for funding support under their Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) programme. HIF is the government’s £5 billion fund, launched in July 2017, which is designed to unlock up to 200,000 new homes in areas of high demand. Funding has been awarded to local authorities on a highly […]

This year The MJ celebrates the 125 years milestone as the voice of local government. It also marks the 15th year of The MJ awards. The MJ awards provide a wonderful opportunity for local authority teams to demonstrate the depth and scale of their innovation. We are delighted to sponsor the following award category: Best […]

We are delighted to be part of the project team supporting this new pilot fund. Crowdfunding Public Infrastructure Projects is a new pilot fund that has been launched by the Bauman Institute. The fund is available to provide direct financial support to Public Sector bodies who want explore the opportunities for crowdfunding to finance new, socially-beneficial infrastructure […]

UK Energy Research Centre, along with energy technologies institute and The University of Edinburgh has published its report on Local Authority engagement with UK energy systems. The report was launched last month and involves 49 councils in Great Britain. It shares common issues and opportunities. This report examines UK local authority clean energy plans and […]

New energy systems and energy saving measures have been rolled out across the district’s four New Vision Fitness leisure centres to save energy and cut energy costs to protect leisure services and reduce the council’s carbon footprint.  A £800,000 upgrade will reduce the leisure centres’ carbon emissions by 281 tonnes a year, a reduction of […]

We have been supporting Cambridgeshire County Council with various energy projects through the Re:fit programme and were delighted they were shortlisted for a Green Energy Award: “Most proactive public sector organisation”.  Cambridgeshire County Council is committed to reducing energy consumption and to use its assets to generate renewable energy. The council established a Local Energy […]

On 11 October, Ashden ran a workshop to for reducing energy usage and CO2 This was part of their LESS CO2 Sustainable schools programme. The workshop involved people who have experience of working with schools, working in local authorities, or those who are working with local authorities in this area, including Local Partnerships’ Robert McKinnon.  […]

Project Director for Re:fit, Rachel Toresen-Owuor spoke at The Energy Management Exhibition on Wednesday 22 November at the ExCel in London.  Rachel joined Rodrigo Matabuena, Energy manager at the London Borough of Sutton, and Mohammed Rafique, Energy and Environment Officer from Surrey Police, on a panel titled “Practising energy management in the public sector.”  Rachel […]